Bridge Grants

yrCSS wants to encourage young scientists to look for new scientific collaborations. Our main initiative designed for this matter is Bridge Grants. Winners of Bridge Grants are provided financial support for a short external visit. More precisely, each application for a Bridge Grant must be submitted by two young researchers of the CSS. One of them is a receiving and the second a visiting candidate. The visiting candidate obtains the financial support to travel to the receiving candidate’s institution and work together on a project that addresses a problem in the field of complex systems. We try to decrease the bureaucracy to a minimum, so after the visit, we ask only for a report to post on our website and receipts of main expenses. Bridge Grants are nice and simple, so don’t hesitate to apply!

Dates – the call for Bridge Grants is CLOSED

The next call will open in May/June 2020.

Funding

The bridge grants provide partial support for short visits. We fund 500 euros for within-continent visits and 1000 euros for visits between different continents.

The awarded bursary should be spent on the visit (transportation, accommodation, food etc). We will require receipts for the main expenses after the visit.

Requirements and how to apply

To be eligible, the recipients of the bursary, here called visiting and receiving candidates, should be young researchers of the CSS in the meaning of our bylaws (see here), and active members of the Complex Systems Society.

The application must consist of:

CVs of visiting and receiving candidates;

an invitation letter for the visiting candidate by the host group’s principal investigator;

a document produced by the candidates where they describe their research project outline with a mandatory figure (max 1000 words including figure’s caption).

Selection

The applications will be reviewed by the yrCSS Advisory Board. They will be evaluated based on candidates CVs and the quality of the proposed project. Applicants will be informed about the outcome via email. Results will be announced on the yrCSS website and media outlets. The number of accepted applications depends on their quality and the current yrCSS budget.

After the visit

Within a month after the visit, the candidates will be required to produce a short report on the research performed during the visit, which will be posted on our website. If you already have a preprint submitted e.g. on Arxiv – put a link in the report to gain more visibility! Together with the report, we will require receipts for the main expenses.

PAST BRIDGE GRANTS AWARDEES

2019

Piotr Gorski
Curtis Atkisson

Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
University of California, Davis, USA